საქართველოს მთავრობა|Government of Georgia

Prime Minister of Georgia Vano Merabishvili and the Minister of Labor, Health and social Affairs of Georgia Zurab Chiaberashvili visited a Cardiologic Hospital of Tbilisi where a very difficult surgical operation - amputation of tumor from heart had been successfully fulfilled just some minutes ago. Prime-Minister of Georgia and Minister of Labor, Health and social Affairs of Georgia met with the medical staff who carried out the operation and listened to the details of the surgery from the chief doctor personally.

Vano Merabishvili put questions about the cost of the surgery and underlined that the task of the Government is to give a possibility even to the poorest citizens of Georgia to make similar complex surgical operation if required, to use the insurance policy distribution of which is available in scopes of the governmental program of insurance. It was noted that the cost of the operation - 9,200 GEL was covered by the insurance company in this case the policy of which was used by the patient.

Prime-Minister paid attention at the necessity of health availability for each citizen of the country that can be reached by expansion of the insurance base. He also noted that in parallel to increasing of the quantity of insured citizens, salaries of the medical staff should be increased as well.

Chief Doctor of the Hospital explained that similar operations in Cardiologic Hospital are carried approximately twice a year. Operation consists of several stages. The first step is cardiac arrest in low temperature conditions when a special apparatus of circulation of blood provides blood circulation in the organism. After extraction of the tumor from the arrested heart, switching of the arrested heart and releasing of the patient from the apparatus of artificial blood circulation are carried. Patient can leave the Hospital in one week.

Tbilisi Cardiologic Hospital was built in scopes of development reforms carried in the hospital sector of the Ministry of Labor, Health and social Affairs of Georgia. Hospital has 40 beds and is employed by 65 people. Among the current technologies Сatheterization Laboratory, two surgical operation rooms equipped with ultra-modern equipment, computer tomography and clinic laboratory equipped with current automatic technologies are represented here.